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A Book of Minutes
January 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’ve just finished reading John Reeves’ A Book of Hours (Eerdman’s, 2001), and I must say that the title is something of a misnomer since I was able to read all of it in about 30 minutes. The title, obviously, is drawn from the Christian devotional tradition of the late medieval period, not the length [...]
Jan
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Das Glasperlenspiel
January 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment
When I made my little sojourn to New York last week I took along Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment (Perennial, 2003) to read on the plane. Some folks may remember Murray as one of the co-authors, with Richard Herrnstein, of The Bell Curve, a book whose thesis would appear to be one of the most misbegotten [...]
